A wide range of scholars have and continue to explore the works of Aphra Behn. What follows is a primer of research resources if, after listening to this podcast, you are eager to learn more.
Projects
- Editing Aphra Behn in the Digital Age (E-ABIDA) – an AHRC-funded project
- Humanities for All – an National Humanities Alliance initiative
- R/18 Collective – a research-based performance initiative
- Stuarts Online – an AHRC-funded project
Podcasts
- Bragg, Melvyn; feat. Ros Ballaster, Claire Bowditch, and Janet Todd. “Aphra Behn.” In Our Time from BBC Radio 4, 12 Oct. 2017, url: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0977v4t.
- Gallagher, John; feat. Claire Bowditch, Tom Charlton, and Annalisa Nicholson. “Aphra Behn.” Free Thinking from BBC Radio 3, 7 Jan. 2021, url: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qyvg.
- Harrison, Tom; feat. Claire Bowditch and Elaine Hobby. “Aphra Behn’s Works on Stage and Page.” A Bit Lit, ep. 106, 24 Feb. 2021, url: youtu.be/dDfYS0_HTWA.
- Hobby, Elaine, and Katy Mair. “Aphra Behn: Memoirs of a Shee Spy.” Literary Lives from The National Archives UK, 10 May 2020, url: media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/aphra-behn-memoirs-of-a-shee-spy.
- Millican, Peter; feat. Paul Slack, Emma Smith, and Kees Windland. “The Great Plague.” Futuremakers from University of Oxford, ep. 4, 1 Dec. 2020, url: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/great-plague.
- Riddell, Fern; feat. Nadine Akkerman and Elizabeth Bruton. “Aphra Behn and Female Espionage.” Not What You Thought You Knew from the History Channel, ep. 2, 5 Nov. 2019, url: history.co.uk/shows/not-what-you-thought-you-knew/articles/aphra-behn-and-female-espionage.
- West, John, and Joseph Hone. “Aphra Behn: Poetry and the Crisis of Stuart Monarchy.” Stuarts Online from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), ep. 9, 2016, url: stuarts-online.com/resources/films/aphra-behn-poetry-and-the-crisis-of-stuart-monarchy/.
Editions & Reference
- Behn, Aphra. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn: Plays 1682–1696. Edited by Rachel Adcock, Claire Bowditch, Elaine Hobby, and Alan James Hogarth, Anita Pacheco, and Margarete Rubik, vol. 4, Cambridge University Press, 2021, doi: 10.1017/9781108887564.
- Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko and Other Writings. Edited by Paul Salzman, Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Behn, Aphra. The Rover and Other Plays. Edited by Jane Spencer, Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Behn, Aphra. “The Widdow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia (1690).” Electronic Texts in American Studies, edited by Paul Royster, vol. 45, 1690, pp. 1–77. url: digitalcommons.unl.edu/etas/45.
- British Library, et al. Discovering Literature: Restoration & 18th Century. 2018, url: bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/.
- Todd, Janet. “Behn, Aphra [Aphara] (1640?–1689), Writer.” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 23 Sept. 2004, doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/1961.
Recordings
- Anderson, Misty, director. The Emperor of the Moon. R/18 Collective, staged reading, 22 Nov. 2020, url: docs.google.com/document/d/1-4zJDBMJf8t-_ast5TIdJy5UvsxfhqtTe5OYCoBtyzc/edit.
- Klett, Elizabeth, performer. Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave. LibriVox, audiobook, 26 Aug. 2009, url: librivox.org/oroonoko-or-the-royal-slave-by-aphra-behn/.
Recent Articles
- Bowditch, Claire, and Elaine Hobby. “Aphra Behn’s 350th Anniversary and Some Radical Re-Imaginings.” Women’s Writing, vol. 27, no. 3, 2020, pp. 265–74, doi: 10.1080/09699082.2020.1748806.
- Britland, Karen. “Aphra Behn’s First Marriage?” The Seventeenth Century, vol. 36, no. 1, 2021, pp. 33–53. doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2019.1693420.
- Van Hensbergen, Claudine. “Aphra Behn: Portraiture and the Biographical Account.” The Review of English Studies, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa098.
Books
- Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess: The Life of Aphra Behn, 1640-1689. Phoenix, 2000.
- Hughes, Derek. The Theatre of Aphra Behn. Palgrave Macmillan, 2001, doi: 10.1057/9780230597709.
- Hughes, Derek, and Janet Todd, editors. The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Cambridge University Press, 2004, doi: 10.1017/CCOL0521820197.
- Hutner, Heidi. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. University of Virginia Press, 1993.
- O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Routledge, 2017.
- Owens, W. R., and Lizbeth Goodman. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. Routledge, 1996.
- Spencer, Jane. Aphra Behn’s Afterlife. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Todd, Janet M. Aphra Behn: A Secret Life. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
- Woolf, Virginia. “Chapter Four.” A Room of One’s Own, Harcourt, 1991, pp. 58–78.
Last updated 7 June 2021.